New Yorkers are circulating a petition calling on Senate ethics committee chair Elaine Phillips to investigate the incident in which Golden reportedly used his placard to impersonate a police officer and bully a cyclist.

Twelve years ago State Senator Marty Golden ran over a 74-year-old woman with his SUV on Brooklyn's Third Avenue, a few miles down the same street where, on Monday night, Golden impersonated a police officer while brandishing his parking placard in an attempt to bully a cyclist out of a bike lane with his chauffeured Cadillac.

In Albany, Golden is one of the chief obstructionists of expanding New York City's speed camera program, which is impervious to placard corruption and has flagged the same car he was riding in last night for several violations over the past few years.